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host: this follow-up -- if you are poor, you'd have to spend a lot of energy to get enough to beat. john, connecticut. good morning. caller: good morning. i was calling to mention low- quality food and the cost of health care, but you covered well. do you think it would be more beneficial if they start doing a local farming program where they could start growing vegetables? maybe have some land with tiles and chickens, and local people could work on the farming areas and return the food to the communities as opposed to being so reliant on high-salt diets, the foods we would coin as having a long shelf life, leaving it on the shelf for six months without going bad? has the government been able to look into those programs, considering the finances involved in the program as a whole? host: thank you. a related topic -- the availability of this fresh produce is a big distraction for many. guest: there are some programs that speak directly to the point, one our farms-to-school programs, directed to help know where food is coming from and getting fresher food into the schools. in addition
host: this follow-up -- if you are poor, you'd have to spend a lot of energy to get enough to beat. john, connecticut. good morning. caller: good morning. i was calling to mention low- quality food and the cost of health care, but you covered well. do you think it would be more beneficial if they start doing a local farming program where they could start growing vegetables? maybe have some land with tiles and chickens, and local people could work on the farming areas and return the food to the...
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Dec 27, 2012
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you have also been a big to champion of energy and energy policy in the past decade. the discovery of natural gas has changed the economy. your concern has been america's energy independence. where do you think this new discovery of this resource will lead us in the next decade? >> eid is incredibly positive for the u.s. already we have gone from 60% energy dependent down to 40% and there is news that we could be even more independent in the next decades. instead of buying scarce energy supplies from people who do not particularly like us, we could be spending that money here at home. think of the difference it could make to the economic strength of the u.s. think what it will mean for job opportunities and the economic strength of america. and natural gas is a cleaner resource. and our progress has not just been on oil and gas. it has also been a renewables. in my state, nearly 10% of the energy is provided by wind power. you go all across north dakota and uc giant wind -- you can see giant wind turbines. on top of that, increased fuel efficiency in cars, a dramatic
you have also been a big to champion of energy and energy policy in the past decade. the discovery of natural gas has changed the economy. your concern has been america's energy independence. where do you think this new discovery of this resource will lead us in the next decade? >> eid is incredibly positive for the u.s. already we have gone from 60% energy dependent down to 40% and there is news that we could be even more independent in the next decades. instead of buying scarce energy...
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Dec 27, 2012
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if you get a more benign environment, that energy would burst forth. host: jkl tweets in, raising the top tax rate will not make a dent in the annual deficit. money gravitates to tax write-offs and crafted loopholes. guest: that is what you are seeing happening in europe when they are raising tax rates. lower the rates, get rid of these massive deductions, and you would see a cleaner code, a less corrupt code. host: valerie in new jersey on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. the more i listen to mr. forbes speak, i am reminded why the reasons why i have lately not been a consistent viewer of c-span anymore. they twist the truth. there is no integrity in what is said anymore. if you look at the record of spending -- mr. forbes mentioned mr. obama's spending being higher than the bush years. that is not true. the deficit which increases our debt grew so much under obama because he put both wars into the budget. george bush kept them out of the budget, was not paying for them, so things looked good. in the first few years of the obama administr
if you get a more benign environment, that energy would burst forth. host: jkl tweets in, raising the top tax rate will not make a dent in the annual deficit. money gravitates to tax write-offs and crafted loopholes. guest: that is what you are seeing happening in europe when they are raising tax rates. lower the rates, get rid of these massive deductions, and you would see a cleaner code, a less corrupt code. host: valerie in new jersey on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. the more...
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Dec 26, 2012
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it is something we need to focus more on as opposed to spending so much energy on the national level. until this recent opposition coalition, which i am quite hopeful about, what we have seen is that legitimacy is being derived from the ground up. the implication of that is for reconciliation and for stability after assad, whatever is after assad will have to decentralize the state. decentralize the state. it is hard to place much hope in these efforts, given how often we have seen attempts fail, and given the situation on the phone. when one thinks about how quickly the sectarian dimension, it is almost a race against time as to whether these efforts can yield anything. is it reflected the broader thinking within the government? the other issue is the russians. there has been a back and forth now for months with russia but there was a hope that some. they would shift -- at some point that would shift. the idea that they may be preparing to graduate the citizens. the russians are saying they will not this about assad. and if they don't this about assad, i think that would make it extr
it is something we need to focus more on as opposed to spending so much energy on the national level. until this recent opposition coalition, which i am quite hopeful about, what we have seen is that legitimacy is being derived from the ground up. the implication of that is for reconciliation and for stability after assad, whatever is after assad will have to decentralize the state. decentralize the state. it is hard to place much hope in these efforts, given how often we have seen attempts...
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Dec 23, 2012
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and here we make it political and partisan on whether or not our country can develop more and more energy. but at the state level it's just about what works. and all we have to do is look at what works. this is not rocket science. i came to washington as a novice in politics, believing in the power of ideas, seeing how ideas can revolutionize different industries, can create new products and services meeting the needs of customers everywhere. and that's what i hoped we could do here in washington. maybe naively i went to work in the house, often working with the heritage foundation to create a better product here in washington. i saw social security, and not many people look below the surface, but we knew it was going broke. we knew we were taking in money that people were paying for this social security retirement benefit, but we were spending it all. and i thought, what an opportunity it would be for future generations, for my children, if we actually saved what people were putting into social security for their retirement. and you didn't have to do too much math to see that even for mi
and here we make it political and partisan on whether or not our country can develop more and more energy. but at the state level it's just about what works. and all we have to do is look at what works. this is not rocket science. i came to washington as a novice in politics, believing in the power of ideas, seeing how ideas can revolutionize different industries, can create new products and services meeting the needs of customers everywhere. and that's what i hoped we could do here in...